and i think, what a bunch of crap. >> did obama say it was the republicans' fault? i saw that. >> i didn't see that. but these are the kinds of things, look at gdp. you can see why it fell. but then people go beyond that and ask it in some femetaphysic way. the dividend fell under pressure. but when you look at what was beyond the gdp components, we had a nice spice in consumer durables. some of that was people buying cars after the storm and so they're spending insurance company money. you had a light increase in inventory compared to the first quarter. that takes some of gdp away. you know you're not going to have that consumer spending for consierms going forward. you have declines in both exports and imports and that had a solid impact on gdp. but you have to be concerned about what's going to happen with exports and, of course, st weak imports. you have to be concerned about that being weak. they're not negative year over year yet, but the flows have slowed down and having declining exports and imports really a bad sign for the economy. i look at the things tha